The 2,796 occurrences of cuss

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Now we number the Potato Beetle 'mong the scares gone by; But a cuss has found its way to Fields of corn--the Hessian Fly.

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What I want to 'rive at is as to using cuss words and unproper language where the angel hears it.

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The Court hain't any 'bjection to your thinking all the cuss words you want to, but you mus'n't speak 'em when she's about.

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"I'll use all three of my Spanish cuss words in a minute, if you don't be reasonable," he thundered.

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By Jove!" he went on reminiscently, "he was a sulky, cantankerous cuss.

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"Rus" was a lean, lanky, long-armed, awkward, thin-nosed cuss that you'd think, to look at, didn't have an ounce of ambition or a pint of sense.

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"That's the kind of a low-down cuss you always was.

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CONCUSS Con*cuss", v. t. Etym: [L. concussus, p. p. of concutere.

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CUSSEDNESS Cuss"ed*ness, n. [Cussed (for cursed) + -ness.]

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DISCUSS Dis*cuss", v. t. [imp.

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DISCUSSER Dis*cuss"er, n. Defn: One who discusses; one who sifts or examines.

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DISCUSSIVE Dis*cuss"ive, a. Etym: [Cf.

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DISCUSSIVE Dis*cuss"ive, n.

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EXCUSS Ex*cuss", v. t. Etym: [L. excussus.

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INCUSE; INCUSS In*cuse", In*cuss", v. t. Etym: [L. incussus, p. p. of incutere to strike.

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[R.] PERCUSS Per*cuss", v. t. [imp.

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PERCUSS Per*cuss", v. i.

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PERCUSSIVE Per*cuss"ive, a. Defn: Striking against; percutient; as, percussive force.

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REPERCUSS Re'per*cuss" (-ks"), v. t. [imp.

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REPERCUSSIVE Re'per*cuss"ive (-ks"v), a. Etym: [Cf.

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REPERCUSSIVE Re'per*cuss"ive, n. Defn: A repellent.

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"Cuss ye fo' a white-livered coward!" yelled Red Bill.

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I reckon, from what I gathered, that this Presby man is about as hard and grasping an old cuss as ever worked the last ounce of gold out of a waste dump.

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No one spoke, but some of us knowed it belonged to old Deacon Wells, an absent-minded old cuss, but the deacon had a family of nigh on to ten kids.

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The engineer that's to relieve Bells ain't so much, but I'll leave it to Bells to cuss him into line.

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It don't matter much about an old cuss like me.

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It's havin' Him lean down and whisper to you once in a while, in the night, when everything seems to be goin' wrong, 'Old boy, you did well,' that keeps it all worth while and makes a feller stiffen his back and go ahead, with his conscience clean and not carin' a cuss what anybody says or thinks, so longs as he knows that the Lord knows he did the right thing."

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"He's hard hit, poor cuss!"

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And sometimes--now, I don't want you to get sore and cuss me--it seemed to me as if your mind wa'n't altogether on the job!

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Most observing cuss I ever seen."

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For, after all, this little Russian cuss had risked his life for fifteen years and expected to lose it shortly.

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What a paltry looking cuss I was--small, tough and wiry, hair sandy, eyes of no color at all, snub nose and a jaw shut tight as in pain.

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On'y keep dirty hands off'n 'em, or she'll cuss me to hell for a fust-class hog."

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An' that's a word as ain't a cuss word, and as the boys of this yer city ain't wise to."

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A bit of a mean cuss--but good grit."

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"Queer cuss," he said, under his breath.

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"Here," he indicated the length of the main building, "I don't care a cuss about your art.

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What about the Indian cuss on it?" he demanded.

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First you're pleased--then you cuss them.

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"Say," he cried, with a great laugh, "I don't care a cuss if my brains never hatch out.

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Women like her can't do without bokays, an' they don't care a cuss how they get 'em.

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"Guess the old cuss has worked out," he went on.

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Superstitious old cuss, Riley!

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For we know they don't like _us_, And they're sure to scold and cuss The tired three, and raise a fuss And a pother About Hopeful here.

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Cuss him a little, maybe; that would be all.

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"We don't allow no such cuss as you to make reflections on gentlemen.

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"We'll stick together, and neither of us won't care a cuss what them low-down fellows says or does.

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Aunt Polly, I've been on the Point, talking to some of the folks down there--there is a fellow called Twombley, odd cuss.

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It's chock full of pitfalls and stumbling blocks that make us cuss like mad.

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It's chock full of pitfalls and stumbling-blocks, that make us cuss like mad.

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She don't care a cuss for him, since--since that night.

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Never talk back to a feller that's abusin' you-- Jest let him carry on, and rip, and cuss and swear; And when he finds his lyin' and his dammin's jest amusin' you, You've gut him clean kaflummixed, and you want to hold him there!

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I've got the cuss!"

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A few days ago I received the following letter: Sir:--I at first thought when I saw you at my laboratory the other day that you was a low, inquisitive cuss and so I spoke to you in harsh tones and reproached you and upbraided you by calling you everything I could lay my tongue to, but since then I have concluded that you didn't know any better.

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And that idee occurred to me The livin' minit 'at I see The little cuss elbowin' in To humor his besettin' sin.

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Last year the cuss sent a load of cream over and tried to sell it at the new creamatory while the funeral and hollercost was goin' on.

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The cutter people generally seemed to want to be fair toward us, but this Lynx's captain was certainly a vindictive cuss.

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As a matter of fact, he was so impractical--such a visionary cuss, after the fashion of all geniuses--that he'd never be convinced of the seriousness of the matter until it was too late.

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Said the old cuss was so sincere, and he had nothing to sell.

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'Clect, at Oxford, hearing of an old Roman Catholic lady they called the Civil, as spoke in that 'ere fashion, and was a dealer in books and stationery, but, cuss me, if you doesn't beat her hollow.

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He blustered a good deal and finally went off sputtering comically although he used no cuss-words.

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"Blunt sort of cuss," Knowlton commented.

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Nice, gentle sort of a cuss," rumbled Tim.

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But he missed it that time too, Hill said--and Hill said, speaking in his careless cuss-word way, it was pretty damn rough on him what poor luck in fatherly kisses he seemed to have--because just then the train conductor swung his lantern and sung out: "All aboard!"

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He let out a big cuss--and Charley wasn't given to cussing--when Ike made his offer; and then he banged his hand down on the table so hard he set the chips to flying, and he said: "Mr. Hart, don't you worry--we're going to put this job through!"

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Shorty got right into the hanging spirit--he always was a comical little cuss, Shorty was--pleading pitiful with the boys to let up on him; and, when they wouldn't, getting a halt on 'em--same as he'd seen done at real hangings--by beginning to send messages to all the folks he ever had.

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Whipping done some good, Hill used to say; but cuss-words was the only sure things to make mules go.

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Never saw such a stubborn cuss in my life.

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To tear a thing to tatters, shout and "cuss," In an assembly callous and sardonic, Savours a bit too much of sheer burlesque, Scarce to the level of fine acting rises.

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He's a mean cuss----" "You see me now, don't you?"

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"D---- it!" he cried, dashing his fist on the table with such force that the match-box flew a dozen or so feet up the room--"Cuss!

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It was the shadow-hand of old 'Never Sleep,' that did the business and set an innocent man free, and hereafter, when I cuss a copper I'll say a little prayer for this man whose good deeds are all done in the dark, and therefore covered up."

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But cuss the sarpints, there's no more dependence to be put in 'em than the cantankerous wolves, and roast 'em, I always sets old kit talkin' Dutch to them varmints, the moment I claps eyes on 'em.

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"No, cuss me if I do understand you, sir!" sharply replies the landlord.

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You'll know what's up, pooty soon, you ugly cuss, you!"

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"Shet up, you piratin' cuss, you; shet up, or I'll give you a settler!" was the reply.

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[Illustration: "Shet up, you piratin' cuss you; shet up or I'll give you a settler!--_Page_ 305.]

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"A-a-a-_chee!_ oo-oo-augh-h-h-_ch-chee!_ Cuss that--a-_chee_--pipe.

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"I'm not through with you yet, you old cuss!" said Chadron.

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I would often remark that I had never had a cigar between my teeth, never had uttered a cuss word, never kissed a girl, and so on.

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'E was my mate, my chum, and I'd give my share o' the swag ten times over just to 'ear 'im cuss me out again."

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"Ah!" said Horatio, breathing deeply and indignantly, "I hope so; he's a mean cuss-what d'ye think?

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Let 'em take you off down the river to Jeff' City and put you behind them tall walls once, where the best you hear's a cuss from a guard, and where you march along with your hands on the shoulders of the man in front of you; and another one behind you does the same to you, and their eyes all down and their faces the color of corpses, and _then_ you'll know!

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Den ole Billinger, he'd cuss and kick de dogs.

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Dey brung him in de kitchen and old missy cuss him out.

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De nex' mornin' mama start do somethin' and missy cuss her out.

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I never could understand his 'ligion, 'cause sometimes he git up off his knees and befo' we git out the house he cuss us out.

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Mos' niggers jus' got turn loose with a cuss, and not 'nough clothes to cover they bodies.

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He was a funny cuss, but I let it go at that.

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The Judge thought he would cuss around a lot, but he didn't--not even to him--the Judge said.

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Little cuss!...

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Idell rather more than Cora, and Idell was the meanest of the two, and her husband the miserablest, sneakingest cuss.

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"My cuss upon Lord Melbun, and On Jonny Russ-all-so, That forc'd me from my native land, Across the waves to go-o-oh!

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Them black scowls and blue cuss-words ain't going to get you nothing."

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"Boot him clear out of the State of California--show him up for what he is--a mean little cuss of a grafter; no friend of labor or anything else but his own pocket."

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"That outfit don't eject worth a cuss," said he laconically.

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